Happy Easter!
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velvetpageI'm starting Easter right, with a clean kitchen and empty dishwasher. Today is more of a test than yesterday - I'll actually be cooking today.
A part of me wishes I could celebrate this day the way I always have, with joyfully smug hymns about how I know the truth whatever other people might think. But since this year I'm one of the other people, I'm going to turn it into a mini-Thanksgiving instead.
I'm grateful that nobody's going to come to arrest me for typing what I typed above.
I'm grateful for spring flowers, bursting into bloom even as I type.
I'm grateful for excited kidlets waking up to the smell of chocolate hidden in plain sight all around the main floor.
I'm grateful for cute - and reasonably cheap - new dresses for each of them.
I'm grateful for my husband, even now dealing with a cranky youngest daughter to get her ready for the Easter-egg hunt.
I'm grateful for good work that needs to be done, and for the skills I bring to it.
I'm grateful for the health I've enjoyed most of my life and the health that is returning to me.
I'm grateful for a clean kitchen and the energy to make and keep it so, and for the abundance of food in this house and this country that will make it messy for a time each day.
I'm grateful for my extended family.
Last but not least, I'm grateful for the wealth of friendship I enjoy, online and off, in good times and bad. Few are so rich.
A part of me wishes I could celebrate this day the way I always have, with joyfully smug hymns about how I know the truth whatever other people might think. But since this year I'm one of the other people, I'm going to turn it into a mini-Thanksgiving instead.
I'm grateful that nobody's going to come to arrest me for typing what I typed above.
I'm grateful for spring flowers, bursting into bloom even as I type.
I'm grateful for excited kidlets waking up to the smell of chocolate hidden in plain sight all around the main floor.
I'm grateful for cute - and reasonably cheap - new dresses for each of them.
I'm grateful for my husband, even now dealing with a cranky youngest daughter to get her ready for the Easter-egg hunt.
I'm grateful for good work that needs to be done, and for the skills I bring to it.
I'm grateful for the health I've enjoyed most of my life and the health that is returning to me.
I'm grateful for a clean kitchen and the energy to make and keep it so, and for the abundance of food in this house and this country that will make it messy for a time each day.
I'm grateful for my extended family.
Last but not least, I'm grateful for the wealth of friendship I enjoy, online and off, in good times and bad. Few are so rich.
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Date: 2009-04-12 04:17 pm (UTC)Wait a sec, what's the difference again?
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Date: 2009-04-12 05:47 pm (UTC)...I don't think I've ever celebrated like that.
I hope your day, whatever you choose to make it about, is filled with good things and love.
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Date: 2009-04-12 09:38 pm (UTC)You're not the type to rejoice in certainty so much as wonder at majesty, so you're also not the type whose worship involves smugness.
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Date: 2009-04-13 12:49 am (UTC)But I hope you did have a good day. ^_^